This Hall of Several Tortures by Reuben Woolley Random House But perhaps her greatest inspiration

But perhaps her greatest inspiration is the Welsh landscape and all the human stories that it hosts: as UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has said

It is a gift to poetry lovers on the birthday of one of their most beloved publishing houses

creating what she calls in Ban en Banlieue (2015) a ‘Literature that is not made from literature’

taking in love and the end of love

She captures a view of the upper reaches of the River Thames that is entirely fresh

This Hall of Several Tortures by Reuben Woolley Random House But perhaps her greatest inspirationIve never read a collection where the spacing between words works so well. That phrase is so often a cliche, but not here. The sense of haunting, of an absence (i dance on horizons and dont cast shadows) then a fleeting presence is handled brilliantly, with the reader aware (just enough) of multiple voices. The repeated she said is used eerily and almost hypnotically, and the writing has moments of intense beauty, but never enough to settle the